OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Wildland Fire is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of fuel spatial distribution on wildland fire behaviour	39
Understanding fire regimes in Europe	26
An empirical-based model for predicting the forward spread rate of wildfires in eucalypt forests	23
Long-term trends in wildfire damages in California	19
Effects of altered fire intervals on critical timber production and conservation values	19
Bureaucratic inertia in dealing with annual forest fires in Indonesia	18
Pre-season fire management planning: the use of Potential Operational Delineations to prepare for wildland fire events	18
Comparing calibrated statistical and machine learning methods for wildland fire occurrence prediction: a case study of human-caused fires in Lac La Biche, Alberta, Canada	17
Forest fire smoke detection under complex backgrounds using TRPCA and TSVB	17
Evidence for lack of a fuel effect on forest and shrubland fire rates of spread under elevated fire danger conditions: implications for modelling and management	17
Soil moisture as an indicator of growing-season herbaceous fuel moisture and curing rate in grasslands	15
Assessing the predictive efficacy of six machine learning algorithms for the susceptibility of Indian forests to fire	15
Towards resilient health systems for increasing climate extremes: insights from the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season	14
Laboratory study on the suppression of smouldering peat wildfires: effects of flow rate and wetting agent	14
An analysis of fatalities from forest fires in China, 1951–2018	13
Do you CBI what I see? The relationship between the Composite Burn Index and quantitative field measures of burn severity varies across gradients of forest structure	13
High-severity wildfire potential – associating meteorology, climate, resource demand and wildfire activity with preparedness levels	13
Guidelines for effective evaluation and comparison of wildland fire occurrence prediction models	12
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Integrating remotely sensed fuel variables into wildfire danger assessment for China	12
Indigenous cultural burning had less impact than wildfire on the threatened Backwater grevillea (	12
How to build a firebreak to stop smouldering peat fire: insights from a laboratory-scale study	12
Characterisation of initial fire weather conditions for large spring wildfires in Alberta, Canada	12
Quantifying merging fire behaviour phenomena using unmanned aerial vehicle technology	12
Integrating remotely sensed fuel variables into wildfire danger assessment for China	11
Projection of future wildfire emissions in western USA under climate change: contributions from changes in wildfire, fuel loading and fuel moisture	11

Forest fire and its key drivers in the tropical forests of northern Vietnam	11
On the non-monotonic behaviour of fire spread	10
Using soil moisture information to better understand and predict wildfire danger: a review of recent developments and outstanding questions	10
Dynamic simulation of fire propagation in forests and rangelands using a GIS-based cellular automata model	10
Patterns of wildfire risk in the United States from systematic operational risk assessments: how risk is characterised by land managers	9
Can ash from smoldering fires increase peatland soil pH?	9
Regional drought synchronised historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada	9
Effect of fuel spatial resolution on predictive wildfire models	9
Application of compositional data analysis to determine the effects of heating mode, moisture status and plant species on pyrolysates	9
Characterisation of thunderstorms that caused lightning-ignited wildfires	9
Extent and effect of the 2019-20 Australian bushfires on upland peat swamps in the Blue Mountains, NSW	9
Spontaneous ignition of soils: a multi-step reaction scheme to simulate self-heating ignition of smouldering peat fires	8
Predicting black spruce fuel characteristics with Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS)	8
Modelling chamise fuel moisture content across California: a machine learning approach	8
Quantifying production of hot firebrands using a fire-resistant fabric	8
Downscaled GCM climate projections of fire weather over Victoria, Australia. Part 2	8
Regional estimation of dead fuel moisture content in southwest China based on a practical process-based model	8
A critical review of fuel accumulation models used in Australian fire management	8
Evaluating the relationships between wildfires and drought using machine learning	8
Wildfire hazard mapping in the eastern Mediterranean landscape	8
What determines variation in remotely sensed fire severity? Consideration of remote sensing limitations and confounding factors	8
Effect of moisture content and fuel type on emissions from vegetation using a steady state combustion apparatus	8
Variability in pyrogenic carbon properties generated by different burning temperatures and peatland plant litters: implication for identifying fire intensity and fuel types	7
An evaluation of empirical and statistically based smoke plume injection height parametrisations used within air quality models	7
Spatial databases and techniques to assist with prescribed fire management in the south-east Queensland bioregion	7
Collective action for managing wildfire risk across boundaries in forest and range landscapes: lessons from case studies in the western United States	7
Modelling the daily probability of lightning-caused ignition in the Iberian Peninsula	7
Converging and diverging burn rates in North American boreal forests from the Little Ice Age to the present	7
Wildfire does not affect the dung beetle diversity of high-altitude Mediterranean habitats	7
PeatFire: an agent-based model to simulate fire ignition and spreading in a tropical peatland ecosystem	7
An analysis of factors influencing structure loss resulting from the 2018 Camp Fire	7
Potential conditions for fire occurrence in vegetation in the Peruvian Andes	7
Smoke emissions from the extreme wildfire events in central Portugal in October 2017	7
Bark charcoal reflectance may have the potential to estimate the heat delivered to tree boles by wildland fires	7
GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression	7
Fire mosaics in south-west Australian forest landscapes	6
Long-term fire effects on vegetation and topsoil properties in beech forests of Manjaca Mountain (western Bosnia and Herzegovina)	6
QES-Fire: a dynamically coupled fast-response wildfire model	6
Deep peat fire persistently smouldering for weeks: a laboratory demonstration	6
Coupled fire-atmosphere simulation of the 2018 Camp Fire using WRF-Fire	6
A simple model indicates that there are sufficient water supply points for fighting forest fires in the Czech Republic	6
Factors influencing the development of violent pyroconvection. Part I: fire size and stability	6
A multivariate approach to assess the structural determinants of large wildfires: evidence from a Mediterranean country	6
Disentangling the factors of spatio-temporal patterns of wildfire activity in south-eastern France	6
Mapping smouldering fire potential in boreal peatlands and assessing interactions with the wildland–human interface in Alberta, Canada	6
Estimating dead fine fuel moisture content of forest surface, based on wireless sensor network and back-propagation neural network	6
Effects of different sampling strategies for unburned label selection in machine learning modelling of wildfire occurrence probability	6
Comparison of vapour-exchange methods for predicting hourly twig fuel moisture contents of larch and birch stands in the Daxinganling Region, China	6
Suppression resources and their influence on containment of forest fires in Victoria	6
Wildland fire prevention: the impact of the Modifying Industrial Operations Protocol on the growth of industrial forestry-caused wildland fires in Ontario, Canada	6

The role of decomposer communities in managing surface fuels: a neglected ecosystem service	6
Organisational influence on the co-production of fire science: overcoming challenges and realising opportunities	6
Development of gas signatures of smouldering peat wildfire from emission factors	5
Crown fuel consumption in Canadian boreal forest fires	5
Quantifying the effect of mastication on flaming and smouldering durations in eucalypt forests and woodlands under laboratory conditions	5
A note on fire weather indices	5
Extension of the Balbi fire spread model to include the field scale conditions of shrubland fires	5
More smoke today for less smoke tomorrow? We need to better understand the public health benefits and costs of prescribed fire	5
Physics-based modelling of junction fires: parametric study	5
Future expansion, seasonal lengthening and intensification of fire activity under climate change in southeastern France	5
Wildland firefighters’ thermal exposure in relation to suppression tasks	5
Parametric evaluation of heat transfer mechanisms in a WUI fire scenario	5
Recent change of burned area associated with summer heat extremes over Iberia	5
The importance of small fires for wildfire hazard in urbanised landscapes of the northeastern US	5
Medium-term effects of straw helimulching on post-fire vegetation recovery in shrublands in north-west Spain	5
Estimation of post-fire vegetation recovery in boreal forests using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) data	5
A multi-scale assessment of fire scar mapping in the Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia	5
Traditional use of field burning in Ireland: history, culture and contemporary practice in the uplands	5